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VOL XXII. NO. 126.
MBS. GRANT LEAVES
ESTATE MEO IT
NEARLYAJVIILLIDN
.Son and Daughter Are Chief
Beneficiaries, While Many
Bequests Are Made to
Charity
The will of the late Mrs. W. D.
Grant, disposing of,an estate valued
at nearly one million dollars and in
cluding a number of charitable be
quests and interesting persona! be
quests as well as large sums in
| property and bonds, was filed for
' probate in the ordinary’s office of
, Fulton county kt 10 o'clock Wednes
t day morning.
■Ji The will was offered for probate
by former Governor John M. Slaton,
: of the law firm of Rosser, Slaton
Phillips & Hopkins, attorneys for the
•state. Mrs. Grant’s son, John W.
Grant, qualified as executor.
PThe will revealed the fact, al
ready generally known, that Mrs
Grant was one of the wealthiest
women in Georgia. The real estate
and bonds disposed of by the will
totalled approximately $500,010; and
Other bequests, mostly in cash
money, brought the value of the
•state well between $700,010 and sl,-
•00,000.
Mrs. Grant left the major part of
her estate in approximately equal
•hares to her son, John W. Grant,
•nd her daughter, Mrs. Sarah Fran
ces Grant Slaton, wife of Governor
Slaton. To Mr. Grant she bequeathed
2,500 shares of the capital itock of
the Grant Construction company, the
corporation that owns the Citizens &
Southern Bank Building, formerly
the Third National Bank building at
the corner of Marietta and North
-Broad streets. Mr. Grant already
'■ owned the other 2,500 shares of this
corporation. The bequest of his
mother now makes him the sole
•wner of the Citizens & Southern
Bank building.
Held. Many Liberty Bonds
To Mrs. Slaton Mrs. Grant be
queathed $250,000 in bonds of the
■tate of Georgia, municipal bonds
•nd Liberty bonds. These were the
Only bonds left by Mrs. Grant. She
Was one of the heaviest purchasers
In the state of Liberty bonds during
the war, and also of state bonds be
fore the war. She also bequeathed to
Mrs. Slaton the old family plantation
near West Point, where she, as
Sarih Frances Reid, was born, and
where she spent her girlhood, when
‘ She was one of the most celebrated
‘ in the’state. This property
-.consists of 1,600 acres in Troup and
Harris counties. It is known as the
Reid plantation and at pres- i
•nt is leased to J. C. McKemie. Other
.property in West Point left to Mrs
Slaton is two stores and the land • n I
which they are located at Num be I
* 71 Gilmer street, West Point. Mrs :
-Grant inherited this property as the
sole heir, except for her mother, of
her father, the late Mr. William
I Reid.
E Other Bequests
| To her other* relatives, both by
H blood and marriage, Mrs. Grant
■ made a number of substantial be
■ quests. They included:
R To son-in-law. Governor Sla
■ ton, the sum of $50,000.
To her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Annie
■ Inman Grant, John Grant’s wife, the '
I Bum of $50,000. I
gjfeS' To her granddaughter, Mrs. Mar
fl garet Van Dyke Wilmer, wife of Dr. ■
■ Richard Hooker Wilmer, a noted eye
■ Specialist of Washington, D. C., the
■ sum of $25,000.
E To her grandson, William D.
■ Grant, the sum of $25,000.
fll To her grandson, John W. Grant,
■ Jr., the sum of $25,000.
fl To her granddaughter, Annie In
-9 man Grant, Jr., daughter of Mr. and
■ Mrs. John W. Grant, the sum of
■ $25,000.
H To Dr. Richard Hooker Wilmer,
■ husband of her granddaughter, Mar
fl- garet Van Dyke Grant, the sum of
■ $5,000.
H To Mrs. Nina Hopkins Grant, wife
fl of her grandson, William D. Grant,
B the sum of $5,000.
J To close friends and other more
fl distant relatives Mrs. Grant made
■ loilowing bequests;
H To Dr. C. B. Wilmer, rtetor of her
H church, St. Luke’s Episcopal, $1,000;
K* to her cousin. Captain John S. Reid,
9 of Eatonton, Ga., $1,000; to her
H, cousin, Mrs. B. W. Hunt, of Eaton-
Hi ton, $1,000; ' to her cousin, Mrs.
■ Frances Davis, wife of Rogers Davis,
H of Charlotte, N. C., $500; to her
H cousin, Mrs. Lula Lyon§ Winston
(Mrs. O. D. Winston, of West Point,
fl Ga.,), st>uo; to her cousin, Mrs. Rosa
■ .Talbot Barnhill, of Gainesville, Ga.,
fl §500; to her cousin, Mrs. Rosa
Eatonton, now the wife of Dr. Lu
|B Cian Lamar Knignt, state historian,
M $500; to her cousin, Neel Reid, At
■ lanta architect, $5oO.
fl Mrs. Grant's bequests to church
and charity were as follows: St.
fl Luke’s Episcopal church, §1,000; he
fl Associated Charities of Atlanta. sl.-
H 000; the Sheltering Arms of Atlanta,
B $1,000; the Home for the Friendless
fl Os Atlanta, SI,OOO.
fl She remembered in her will all of
BM the old colored servants who had
been with her tor years, many com
fl in a to Atlanta from the old Reid
fl plantation at West Point, where they
K were with her during her girlhood.
al These bequeste v.'Cit as follows:
fl fcob Smith. §200; Bob Clarke, $100;
■ Mary Shehee, $100; Susan Glass,
■r$100; Charlotte Hill, $100: Lake Erie
fl Ferccnal Effects
All her personal effects .such as
jewelry, silverware, lieir-
HB looms and works of art, Mrs. Grant
|M|Eg (Ccntlnved on Page 6. Co'nma 4)
HER" FITS ST OPPED
Mrs. Dellia Martin, a resident of
®|i Wurstboro, N. Y„ writes that she
stopped hea fits with a free bottle of
medicine which she read about in the
gIH paper. She says she has not had it
fit since she took the first dose, and
Isl that she wants every sufferer to know
||l about this wonderful medicine and
fl What it did for her. If you, a friend
jfl «r relative suffer from these dread
fl ful attacks you are advised to send
name and address at once to R. P. N.
PM Lepso, 13 Island avenue, Milwaukee,
Wis., who is generously offering to
gfl send a bottle of the same kind of
he gave Mrs. Martin, free’
to any sufferer who writes him.
M (Advt.)
Daring British It 7 omen
Barely Fail to Swim
' Rough English Channel
LONDON —(Associated Press). —
The English channel, twenty-one
miles wide, which so long has flaunt
ed the challenge of its strong cur
rents and roWgh seas before the
world’s best swimmers, with only
two defeats recorded against It, is
..gain the object of a determined at
tack.
Not only swimmers, but oarsmen,
and even one girl water cyclist,
have been bending their endeavors
towards overcoming the tremendous
obstacles of the turbulent waters. •,
Mrs. Arthur Hamilton’ failure to
swim across last week and thereby
be the first woman to achieve suc
cess has not deterred Mrs. Hilda
Wilding, another intrepid English
woman, from making the attempt to
morrow evening.
The American swimmer, Henry
Sullivan, Lowell, Mass., who made
JOHNSON AND •
HOOVER DIFFER
ON PACT VIEW
BY DAVID I.AWSENCE
(Copyright, 1920, for The Atlanta Journal.) ,
CHICAGO, Sept. B.—Two gentle
men between whom, politically
speaking, there is no love lost, are
having a most uncomfortable time in
this campaign and friends of both are
wondering which shall have proved
accurate in analyzing the mind of
Senator‘Harding, or President-elect
Harding, as the case may be after
next November. *
Hiram Johnson is the one and Her
bert Hoover is the other. Mr. John
son is opposed to the League of Na
tions and is convinced by a reading
of the Harding speeches that the
Ohio senator, if elected, will reject
the whole league business, whilst
Mr. Hoover is satisfied that Mr.
Harding will approximate the posi
tion which Republicans like Taft,
Hughes and Wickersham have ex
pressed as their understanding of
Senator Harding’s innermost
thoughts.
Somebody, to borrow a phrase from
William Jennings Bryan, is going to
find his heart “in the grave” when
Mr. Harding choosfes between the
wishes of the so-called irreconcila
bles and the mild reservationists or
friends of the treaty and league.
Some people predict that Mr. Harding
will make the choice before election
day, other say he will wait until after
the polls have closed.
Feeling Changes
Meanwhile, the friend» of Johnson
were elated by Senator- HftftHttg's
speech of August <2B, and now they
are correspondingly dismayed by,the
statement issued at Marion by
George W. Wickersham, former at
torney general in President Taft’s
cabinet. That statement was ready
and approved by Senator Harding be
fore being issued through the steno
graphic corps of Harding headquar
ters, or it is the first important
statement issued from the front
porch that has not gone through that
process.
But the tendency at Marion . has
been to win the friends of the treaty
and league, and the writer pointed
out. at the time Charles Evans
Hughes went to see Senator Harding,
that the Republican nominee was
leaning toward the . Taft-Hughes-
Wickersham wing of the party and
more and more away from Johnson,
whose cause he had espoused in ear
lier speeches.
Moreover, Mr. Wickersham con
firms clearly a view of Senator
Harding’s position on the treaty
which this correspondent found on
his own visit to Marion in July,
namely, x as Mr. Wickersham ex
pressed it, that Mr. Harding would
not “wholly and finally reject the
league,” but would take the lead in
revising the covenant and putting It
into practical operation.
Wickersham’s Views
There is one portion of Mr. Wick
ersham’s statement which, however,
if the Republican nominee read, he
could not have approved, but the
significance of it as an utterance on
the very threshold of the Ohio sena
tor’s home and its resemblance to
statements made by Governor Cox,
the Democratic nominee, is simply
that after the election is over the
position taken by either of the can
didates who is successful will tend
toward the same goal for the simple
reason that each would be confront
ed by the same set of facts and cir
cumstances.
“I earnestly favor the League or
Nations,” says Mr. Wickeraham.
without referring indefinitely to ”a
league of nations. "I recognize the
imperfections- of the Paris covenant.
Yet I should haVe been satisfied to
see it ratified as written, believing
that the power of amendment was
ample to enable it to be molded as
national interests might make neces
sary. Senator Harding does not
wholly and finally reject the league.
He recognizes that it may have be
come so entwined and interwoven in
peace of Europe that its good
work and its unobjectionable pro
visions must be preserved in order
to stabilize the peace of that conti
nent.” '
Mr. Wickersham represents Sena
tor Harding as unquestionably in
clined to adopt “the” League of Na
tions when he is elected even though
it may have to be “modified to re
move all just doubts as to its undue
effect upon the American rights ano
I interests,” which, in a nutshell, is the
I Taft position, the Hoover poosition,
I and now the position, too, of Gover
! nor Cox.
Somebody will have analyzed Mr.
I Harding’s views incorrectly by the
! time election time has come, and this
I correspondent predicts that Senator
1 Johnson will find his interpretation
lof the treaty and league different
! f ro ~! t’-st held bv Senator Harding.
Hohn D.” Gives Tip
On Gas Situation
| SARANAC LAKE. N. Y.—“ That is
the most fun I have had for $lO in
tw<-«ty yt-nrs,” said John D. Rocke
feller as he stepped jauntily from a
motor boat at the Paul Smith hotel
landing this afternoon. The aged
but comparatively active oil mag
nate made the remark to Leo Kelly,
who had piloted Mr. Rockefeller and
his party on a two-hour trip through
the upper and lower St. Regis Lakes.
Mr Rockefeller has been visiting
his brother, William Rockefeller, at
the latter’s camp near Paul Smith’s.
Stops were made at the camp of
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, and Dr. James,
a motor boat owner who has been
grumbling at paying 37 cents a gal
lon for gasoline in the Adirondack*,
inquired of Mr. Rockefeller if gas was
ever going to be any lower.
“Never so long as the public con
tines to consume more than the wells
in the country can produce or are
producing,” replied Mr. Rockefeller,
with a grin.
an unsuccessful effort last week,
plans to try again.
Mrs. Hamilton started from St.
Margaret’s bay at 6.10 o’clock at
night. She was forced to abandon
her efforts in the morning.
She was in the water for twelve
hours and says she got to within
nine miles of the French coast. She
attributed her failure to reach
France to the heavy seas and strong
currents.
Last week two young oarsmen
started out to scull across from Eng
land, but were compelled to give up
the attempt. Recently, too, Miss
Zetta Hulls got almost across- on a
watercycle, but the machine broke
down when she was nearing the goal.
The only two of the many swim
mers who have faced the channel
waters and succeeded were Captain
Webb, who crossed in 1875 in twen
ty-one hours and forty-five minutes,
Ts W. Burgess in 1911, who crossed
in twenty-two huos and thirty-six
minutes. *
GEORGIA CATTLE
RECLAIMED FROM
PLAGUE OF TICK.
The Atlanta Journal News Bureau,
623 Biggs Building.
BY THEODORE TILLER
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—-The de
partment of agriculture makes an
nouncement that the cattle industry
in Georgia Is- being reclaimed
from the dominion of the cattle
tick. Florida, a sister state, the de
partment says, is still heaVily in
fested by the ticks and is expected
to be the last stronghold of the para
site in the south.
Georgia is using 3,700 dipping
vats to combat the tick which for
years has retarded the cattle indus
try. Federal renorts show that dur
ing July in the state there were
888,219 'dippings of cattle supervis
ed by federal, state and county em
ployes. This figure is one of the
largest recorded state east
of the Mississippi river since syste
matic tick eradication began in 1906.
Already 366.674 square miles In
the state of Georgia have been re
leased from federal quarantine, and
cattle from the released districts
may now be moved Interstate with
out the former restrictions. With
a continuation of the extensive dip
ping nrogram. federal officials ex
pect that large additional areas in
Georgia will be ready to be releas
ed from quarantine in December
r '->en the work for 1920 is complet
ed.
As evidence of interest In- improv
ed live stock an international live
stock exhibition will be held in At
lanta this fall, and it is expected
thta many pure bred animal?
brought from other states for exhi
bition will remain in Georgia as
foundation stock tor an extensive
and profitable cattle industry. Re
ports from federal tick eradication
indicate that the intro
duction of fine live stock in Georgia
is following very closely on the trail
of the departing tick. Competition
at the live stock exhibition, it is
stated, will be as keen as shows of
similar character in northern states
and in regions of the south now free
from ticks.
From present indications Georgia
will be one of the next states to ne
entirely freed from ticks. The prog
ress is due largely to the energy of
cattle owners in supporting tick
eradication work, and also to their
foresight in realizing that live stock
can not be grown profitably until the
tick menace is removed;
Florida, the sister state of Geor
gia lying to the south, continues to
be heavily infested with cattle ticks
an dis expected to be the last strong
of that parasite in the south.
The department of agriculture
points out, however, that bv dipping
2 million cattle per month, cattle
men in Florida could make rapid
progress toward removing that state
from 1 federal quarantine. In fact,
with the’ larger tick-infested area of
Florida the dinning of two million
cattle per month would be no great
er undertaking than the extent of
systematic dinning now in progress
in Georgia. The fact that a larger
per cent of cattle are owned In Flor
ida by persons having little or no
tend makes the problem somewhat
more difficult, but not seriously so.
Notwithstanding these problems the
detailed federal records prepared
each month for all regions in which
ticks occur show systematic “mop
ping tip” of this nest, and the final
extinction of ticks in the United
States is a matter merely of a few
vpnrs.
Woman, Unable to Get
Job, Jumps Into River
WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Roomers'
at government dormitories here today
identified as Mis Flossie May Rosel
the woman who late yesterday jump
ed from a high cliff into the Great
Falls of the Potomac.
The girls said Miss Rosel had been
a yeoman (F) and after that had
been employed at other government
work until recently when she was
unable to get a position. This is be
believed to have x made her de
spondent.
A broth nr of the 4->ad woman liv
ing at Gerlane, Kans., has been noti
fied by police.
Rock Springs Farmer
Killed in Accident
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Sept. B.
George Walker, a farmer of Rock
Springs. Ga.. was Instantly killed in
an automobile accident while en
route to Chattemooga to attend Labor
day* celebrations, according to re
ports received here.
Gives Husband to Sister
LONDON. Eng.—Alfred John Wil
liams. twenty-one, was arraigned on
a charge of bigamy in marrytng
Ethe’. Westbrook. -ity-r.ne, his
’wiT’ers sister. Miss T’estbrook told
the police that her sister told her
“Williams wants you and if he can’t
have you he will go away. Rather
i than let him go you can have him.”
i She said she married him in order
i that her sister would not lose her
husband
Cigarette Forest Fire
PARIS. France.—An immense fire
.ravaged the forests of St. Loup and
St. Marcel, around Marseilles. Hun
dreds of . acres of fir trees burned.
The fire is said to have been caused
by a Spaniard carelessly throwing
i away a lighted cigarette on the dry
grass. ,
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Mo., is making an offer to send a
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and recommend it to their friends.
If you want one, write today.
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ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920.
DIMET OTO
BT DEMOMS FOR
SLUSH FUND DM
E. H. Moore Resumes Stand
at Senate Committee
Healing on the Source of
Campaign Contributions
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. Governor
Cox’s “quota” figures on the amount
the Republicans sought to raise in
Cleveland, Ohio, were substantiated
and an admission made that the na
tional committee had sought to
raise more than Georgia’s $25,000
quota when the senate committee in
vestigating campaign expenditures
resumed its hearing today.
Dudley S. Blossom, one of the
leaders in the Cleveland fund raislhg
drive, testified the Cuyahoga county
quota was fixed -at $400,000 al
though the testimony of Fred W.
Upham, Republican national treas
urer, fixed the goal for the entire
state of Ohio at $400,)00 for the
national .corfimlttee and $250,0)0 for
state purposes.
C. W, McClure, o f Atlanta, Ga.,
said Mr. Upham sent C. F. Taylor, a
paid field worker, to him last month
with a letter stating that Mr. Tay
lor was delegated to raise more
money in that state. Mr. McClure
quoted Dr. J. C. Stockbridge, of At
lanta, who assisted him, as saying
Mr. Taylor had told Dr. Stockbridge
that he wanted to raise $25,000 in
Atlanta alone.
Mr. Blossom said they actually
raised $74,000 in Cuyahoga county
and Mr. McClure said his committee
obtained pledges of about SII,OOO in
the state of Georgia, on which $6,-
015.75 had been paid.
United States District Attorney
Charles F. Clyne today announced,
that data about presidential cam
paign expenses has been submitted
to him by E. H. Moore, Governor
Cox’s representative at the sena
torial investigation of the campaign
expenditures. Mr. Clyne said he was
not ready to announce what action
may be taimen on this information.
First evidence supporting Gover
nor Cox’s charge that large quotas
were assigned to th3 principal 'cities
by the Republican campaign fund
committee was introduced in the
senate committee investigation to
day when Dudley S. Blossom, who
helped raise Cleveland’s quota, testi
fied Governor Cox’s figure of $400,-
000 for that city was correct.
- Senator Reed called the witness’
attention to the queta sheet submit
ted last week by Fred W. Upham, Re
publican national treasurer, which
fixed the amount for the entire state
of Ohio at $400,000.
Mr. Blossom testified that A. A.
Protzman, a paid agent of the na
tional committee, was present when
the Cleveland quota was announced
as $400,000, and that Mr. Protzman
helped direct the raising of the
money.
Forty teams of six men each were
organized for the drive. Mr. Blos
som said, twenty under his direc
tion and twenty under C. T. Brooks.
A list of 3,000 names of prospects
was provided by W. R Woodford,
chairman df the ways and means
committee of Cuyahoga county, and
from this list each team captain se
lected. the names of fifty to seventy
five men to be canvassed by his
team. Some of the cards in the list
as furnished by Mr. Woodford were
marked with the amount the pros
pect should give, Mr.- Blossom said.
Mr. Blossom, who is director of
public welfare of the city of Cleve
land, testified that Mr. Woodford
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WARSAW —Outside the gates of their beloved capital the women of Poland battled with the
men to hold off the invader. This photograph, one •of the last to leave Warsaw before Trotzky’s
forces laid siege, shows the Polish Legion of Women, many of whom have sen hard service on the
battlefront. ' ’ * . ‘
Tomatoes Bombard Pastor
BP ho Criticized Behavior
Oj Seashore Bathers
TRENTON, N. J. —Vacationists at
Washington’s Crossing, whose con
duct the Rev. Frederick S. Kopfman,
of Titusville, has made the subject
of sermons and intends to describe
to the township board, attacked the
clergyman with rotten tomatoes and
other missiles today when he passed
through the community in an auto
mobile after a stern sermon, on im
modesty and immorality, In the Tt
tuSviJle Methodist church.
The clergyman was on his way to
the railroad station here to take a
trajn to New York, intending, accord
ing to his habit, ti visit his sister in
Brooklyn. As his car in sight
Jeers and yells arose from a knot of
men and women and others came run
ning to"join them, some.of therp in,
the bathing: suits which, inspired thT
pastor’s sermons. .
For a moment‘the air was red witli
tomatoes; Which '-burst all ovet the
automobile 4 nd its’occupant. ’ More
dangerous missiles were used as we'.j
A stone shattered the windshield of
the car and another gashed the
clergyman’s face. , So dense was the
crowd that the car was brought to
a halt. . *
Voice Drowned by Yells
The Rev. Mr. .Kopfman, blood and
tomato juice streaming down his
face, took advantage of the enforced
stofi to rise in his seat and declare
his principles again in the face ot
those whom he denounced. His
voice, shrill as it was with excite
ment, was drowned by the yells of
those who pressed about the car.
“Duck him!” some cried. “Throw
him in the canal.”
Seeing that he was facing an Im
possible audience, the plucky preacn
er started to drive slowly through
the crqwd, which gave way reluc
tantly before his car and closed in
behind. A train of his foes, shout
ing threats and hurling whatever
missiles came to hand, followed him
through the village.
At the further side of the com
munity, the car’s engine died. The
pursuers, who had begun to fall
away, closed in again, apparently in
a still more*pugnacious mood. Mr.
Kopfman decided to abandon the
vehicle and ran to another car which
was approaching from -behind. Its
occupants agreed to give him a lift,
although warning him that thfcy were
not going as far as Trenton. The
preached said he would take his
chances on the last leg of the trip
and got into the car, which was
driven away. . ’ ’ !
Rromfses to FtSsant Charges
He. tUMflea in his Wat. tb shovt. tb
ihe foremost of,, his tormentors that
.’he would be 'back Tuesday- to pres
ent his charges ■ concerning the do
ings at ( Washington’s Crossing to
the .township board; In his sermon
this morning at Titusville he was as
outspoken'as ever.
“There is a whole lot I could call
the girls,” he said, “but* 1 will leave
that to Billy Sunday to' do. Wash
ington’s Crossing is too sacred a
place to be made to blush for the
conduct of the summer colonists and
something must be done. The Cross
ing is one of the worst places I ever
have, been in,” • -G ; 7
His congregation was aroused to
laughter today when the preacher
darted out of the to one of the
front pews in order to show them
how girls sat In the subway.
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Mess Plate Lost on
French Battlefield
, Finds Owner in U. S.
; NEW YORK—-The Rev. Dr. Joseph
Ryerson, ■ rector of Grace’Episcopal
church, Riverhead, L. 1., 'has just re
turned from a motor trip to Wor
cester, Mass., taken for the purpose
of returning to a young ex-service
man of \that city a tin plate
which the clergyman picked up in
of St. Mihiel.
Dr. Ryerson then was a V. M- C. A.
secretary 'in . France. He had lost
his own mess plate and hunted about
until he found another. On it was
inscribed a soldier’s first name, his
number, and the word “Grace.”
Dr. Ryerson . kept the plate, and
after returning to this corqMry*
learned the name and address of its
owner by giving the number on the
plate to t* war department. The
owner, he learned, was Corporal
George Allen, of Worcester, who nad
been a member of the One Hundred
and Fourth battalion, Twenty-Sixth
division.
Dr. Ryerson found Allen, restored
the plate and learned that Allen now
is engaged to marry “Grace.”
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■ POLLED WEDNESDAY
IN GEORGIA PRIMARY
Contests for U. S. Senator,
Governor and Congress
men Are Settled After
Strenuous Campagns .
One of the hardest fought political
campaigns irl the history of Georgia
came to an end Wednesday when ,yot
ers of the state turned out In uh.-;
usually large pMnibsrs to choose
nominees tor
YVMte„.Jhe weqtlier wya<-iHifavorable
-dr*' threatening th- many' it
appeared ’ that the final'cinitit would
show that an extremely heAyy V6te,
had been polled, nj '. - . ‘ ■ >
Paramountfn interest the
various', races' were those idr United
States senator, and governor. Each
was a .four-cornered affair —Senator
ripke Smith, 'Governor Hugh Dorsey,
Thomas JE- Watson and John R.
Cooper/cpiitendihg for the nomina
tion in the first instance, while Johfi
N. Holder,' speaker of the house of
representatives; former Attorney
General Clifford Walker, former Unit
ed States Senator Thomas W. Hard
wick and Walter N.-Brown were the
contestants for < the latter office.
Several spirited races-for ebngress
in various districts of the state were
voted upon also in Wednesday’s pri
mary. •
10,0WOUTIN -
ALABAMA COAL
STRIKE, REPORT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. B.—While
thousands of men were Idle in the
Alabama coal mining district today,
a-commission of three conciliators
appointed by Governor Kilby was
trying to reconcile differences be
tween operators and union leaders in
an effort to halt the general strike
called last week by John L. Lewis,
national president of the United Mine
Workers.
Reports at union headquarters
early this morning indicated that
more than 10.000 men, half the num
ber employed in this section, had
■obeyed* the'strike call and "union" or
ganizers predicted this figure would
be increased with the receipt of-news
from outlying districts. Both sides
admitted the situation was graye and
predicted a shutdown of factories and
mills.
The strike call went into effect at
midnight but many miners had nuit
their lobs two or three days ago.
Dr. George H. Denny, chairman of
the governor’s coal commission, was
expected here from Tuscaloosa dur
ing the day. Preliminary con
ferences 'with union leaders and
operators have been held by former
Governor Charles- Henderson and
Judge J. J. Mayfield, the other mem
bers of the commission, to determine
a method of procedure. It was an
nounced the hearings of the com
mission would be public.
Before the conciliators started
Aheir hearing today, operators re
iterated their determination not to
deal directly or indirectly with mem
bers of the United Mine Workers In
settling disptues at their mines.
J. R. Kennamer. president of the
union district organization, repeated
his statement of yesterday thafc recog
nition of the union was one thing
upon which he would insist
Governor Kilby’s coal commission
investigating the strike in the bi
tuminous fields of this state, today
wired John L. Lewis, president of
the Union Mine Workers, asking for
a copy of the report by union investi
gators upon the basis of which a
general strike call was issued last
Wednesday.
In its telegram the commission
stated it was endeavoring to collect
all available data bearing upon the
strike with a view to composing the
differences existing between opera
tors and miners.
Informal conferences with leaders
on both sides marked the work of
the commission today.
J. R. Kennamep, president of Ala
bama district No. 2, United Mine
Workers, said 12,000 men had obeyed
the strike call. He said fifty-seven
had signed the "blue book’’ contract,
und that 5,000 men working in these
mines would not be affected. He
estimated the total number of men
employed in the Alabama field at
27,000.
The -strike has not had any appar
ent effect upon local industries,
guards have been posted at most of
the mines. There has not been any
disorder. .
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Scores of Lives Are Be
lieved to Have Been Lost
in the District North of
Florence.
ROME, Sept. B.—Scores of lives
are believed to have been lost in the
district north of Florence, which was ’
severely shaken by an earthquake
yesterday morning. As reports from
the stricken region come in over fal
tering telegraph and telephone lines,
the extent of the disaster seems to
be growing and, there is a possibil=
ity that the damage done may be
much more serious than was at first
believed.
The territory violently disturbed
seems to be lozenge-shaped, with
Florence at the southern apex ana
Modena at the northern end. It ex
tends along the Etrurian coast and
runs over the Appenines eastwarrt
for upwards of 100 miles. In this
district there are many populous
towns, and no tidings nave as yet
been received from many of them.
There is every indication that the
shock was a severe one, and reports
from- cities in the earthquake «one
show that buildings crumbled be
neath the strain of the convulsion of
the earthquake. At Fivizzano, a
town of 17,000 inhabitants, near Car
rara, almost every building was
damaged and many were completely
destroyed. Among the collapsed
structures is the postoffice, in the
ruins of which Is the entire staff,
goliera, in the province of Massa
Marittima. and Monti, nearby, were
partially destroyed. Rlversano, For
ni and Montignore are reported in
ruins, while in Marina and Carrara,
many structures have collapsed. At
Viareggio, the Church of St.: Paul
was destroyed, and at Castel Francd
di Sotto the celling of a church was
shattered.
Panic prevails at Lucca as a re
sult of the cataclysm and from Ga
vinana and Limestre come reports
of lives being lost. At Vallla Fran
ca, in Lunlgiana, an entire family
was buried in the ruins of their
home, and the village of Vigetta was
entirely destroyed. Serious damage
was done in the Frlgnano district,
where houses collapsed, and at Fras
sinero, where a number of <»houses
fell. Pievepela and Sant-Andrea
were badly damaged, but the num
ber of victims has not been ascer
tained.
Following are the big earthquakes
In world’s history;
15.7 —Macedonia, 150 towns de
stroyed.
742—Syria, 500 towns destroyed.
1137—Catania Sicily, 20,000 killed.
1456—Naples, 40,000 killed.
1531—Lisbon, 30,000 killed.
1626—Naples, 70.000 killed.
1693—Sicily, 100,000 killed.
1703—Tokio, 200,000 killed.
1731—Pekin, 100,000 killed.
1754—CfalTO, 40,000 killed.
• 17»7—Cwitral America, 40,000 kill
ed. f *'
1868-—Ecuador and Peru, 25,009
killed.
1885—Cashmere, 70,000 homes de
stroyed.
■ 1902—Martnique, 32,500 killed.
■, 1908—Sicily and Italy, 200,000
killed.
MACSWINEY IS
MUCH WEAKER
ON 27TH . DAY
LONDON, Sept. B.—Terence Mac-
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, entered
today on the twenty-seventh day of
his hunger strike, which began on
•August 12, following his arrest by
| British authorities at Cork. Reports
from Brixton prison, where he is in
carcerated, stated he was a little
brighter this morning, but much
weaker and more exhausted. It was
added he had passed a fairly good
night.
A bulletin issued at noon by the
Irish Self-Determination league with
regard to the mayor’s condition, said:
“The lord mayor suddenly got
much weaker. The doctors are very
anxious and have forbidden his rel
atives to converse with him.”
The British government today an
hounced .its willingness to release ■
Lord Mayor MacSwiney, now on the
twenty-eighth day of his hunger
strike in Brixton prison, if a guaran
tee is received from some responsi
ble Irish source that murder of
policemen in Ireland wiy cease.
This announcement followed an
offical denial that Premier Lloyd
George, who returned last night
from Switzerland, had previously
made a similar conditional offer, as
unofficially reported in press dis
patches.
Sinn Fein headquarter,} J -sued a
bulletin today saying ’i Mac-
Swiney passed “a fairly good night.”
but was “weaker and exhausted.”
Sinn Fein officials >vere confident
that Lloyd George’s return was con
with the Irish situation,
vvhile no direct negotiations had
been mada, they said, several feel
ers had been put out by the govern
ment along the lines indicated in th#
•latest official announcement. They
also said they had positive informai
tion that the government ha 1
brought strong pressure to bear
upon Pope Benedict to condemn the
murders in Ireland, promising that
if he did so MacSwiaey woura ne
released immediately.
Skull Crushed, Man Is
Remade by Surgery
CHICAGO, Sept. B.—Believed near
death when he was taken to a hos
pital here with the left side of hii
head crushed and a part of his brain
protruding, C. L. Koepp, sixty-three.
Huron, S. D., merchant, today had
been partially remade by modern
surgery.
Koepp was Injured in an automo
bile smash-up August 14: His> ad
vanced age and physical condition al
lowed for the use of only a local
anaesthetic in the operation. Dr. Har
ry Mock removed parte K'-w— ’ >
Straw hat from me cram tissues.
Two stone pebbles and a piece of
rubber from the windshield of the
automobile were alsp removed.
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